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Observe a dandelion from flowering to forming of a seed head

Time-lapse: A total lunar eclipse

Learn how scientists use time-lapse photography to track movement and flow of glaciers

Experience the city of Chicago

View a time-lapse video of cloud formations rolling across the sky followed by a thunderstorm

Observe how the sporophytic fern appears to unfurl upward as it grows from its rhizome

See the blooming of the reticulated iris (Iris reticulata ‘Pauline') flowers

See a Matilija poppy blooming, a native to California (US) and Mexico

Observe a living plant cell undergoing mitotic cell division recorded by time-lapse photography

Behold a time-lapse video of a mushroom cap's emergence from the ground

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Observe a dandelion from flowering to forming of a seed head

Time-lapse: A total lunar eclipse

Learn how scientists use time-lapse photography to track movement and flow of glaciers

Experience the city of Chicago

View a time-lapse video of cloud formations rolling across the sky followed by a thunderstorm

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Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, with her dog, Toto, from the motion picture film The Wizard of Oz (1939); directed by Mervyn LeRay. (cinema, movies)

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